Thunderstorms rumbled across parts of the Gulf Coast and upper Midwest Saturday, but the overall U.S. weather picture was quieter than the day before.
Severe weather troubled parts of the United States earlier this week.
Michigan had the greatest potential for severe weather Saturday afternoon due to a band of storms moving up from the Chicago area and another passing through the upper portion of the Lower Peninsula. The National Weather Service reported that a slight chance of severe weather existed in the Plains and heat advisories were out in the South.
Conditions were overall mild compared to Thursday and Friday when tornadoes moved through the upper Plains and Midwest, and even passed over New York City.
A lightning strike at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Friday forced NASA to postpone Sunday's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis for 24 hours.
Tropical storm Ernesto continued poking its way into the Caribbean, heading north-northwest with little change in its organization.
